The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 134
I give you advice; take it or leave it--I shan't bother about you anymore.
Who acts: I · What happens: give, take, leave, not bother · To what, where: advice, you
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 give | nsubj |
| 2 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 give | iobj |
| 4 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 give | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 give | parataxis |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 take | obj |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 leave | cc |
| 9 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 leave | obj |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 bother | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 bother | nsubj |
| 13 | sha | sha | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 bother | aux |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 bother | advmod |
| 15 | bother | bother | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 take | conj |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 bother | obl |
| 18 | anymore | anymore | ADV | _ | 15 bother | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | I | advice | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient advice=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | infinitive | advice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | advice | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not bother | I | about you; anymore property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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